On the analytical comparison of testing techniques

Authors:
Sandro Morasca;Stefano Serra-Capizzano
Affiliations:
Università dell'Insubria, Como, Italy;Università dell'Insubria, Como, Italy
Venue:
ISSTA '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Software testing and analysis
Year:
2004

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Abstract

We introduce necessary and sufficient conditions for comparing the expected values of the number of failures caused by applications of software testing techniques. Our conditions are based only on the knowledge of a total or even a hierarchical order among the failure rates of the subdomains of a program's input domain. We also prove conditions for comparing the probability of causing at least one failure in three important special cases.